Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsatisfying because their faces, not their wits, are in the focus. The scenes are at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris during the closing hours of a six-day bicycle race. Adolphe Menjou, Jetta Goudal and Raymond Griffith offer three of the best performances ever concentrated in one film...
...Iron Horse. Heralds had busily prepared the advent of this luxuriously equipped film with announcements that it was a second Covered Wagon. When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that. The story attempts to be an epic commemoration of the spanning of the U. S. with steel rails. It is probably pretty good history but there was oil on the tracks somewhere and the drama never got completely under...
...telephone (TIME, June 2). The process was to have a light impulse transmitted to an electrical impulse and back into a light impulse. The transmitted to an electrical impulse and face of a picture, taking successive light impulses from it in lines as it went repeatedly across the film. At the receiving end, the same device reversed cast a varying ray of light on a photographic film as it went across its surface on adjoining lines...
...follows: "The cinema interests the musician through its rhythmic life, full of an intensity and a complexity, which in the picture L'lnhumaine becomes mysterious and spiritual. The poetry of machines is effectively interpreted through fantasy and an absolutely new technique. Much research and work has made this film the achievement of a poet. It is an artistic effort which has, at last, been realized; and the cinema becomes, as Jean Cocteau says, 'the tenth muse...
...beam of light shoots from a projector. It seeks out a mouse in its cage. The mouse blinks, surprised, into the glow. A switch is turned. Terrible energy flies along the beam. The mouse jumps into the air, quivers, is dead. So, in the future, Prof. Grindell-film such prophetic visions-the death ray will sweep whole armies into oblivion, whole cities into bleak, smoldering ruins, explode bombs in midair, blow up ammunition dumps from great distances; in a word, make existence for those who do not possess its mysterious secret impossible, and, so he says...